EXCLUSIVE: Avondale housing rehab will start on Maple Avenue

Developer to provide plans Monday to contractors for sites; more than 200 units in works

10:27 PM,
Nov. 16, 2013

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The large-scale makeover of affordable housing in this east-central city neighborhood will begin on Maple Avenue in April.

The work is part of a multiyear, multimillion dollar plan that will create new jobs and add more than 200 new and renovated affordable apartments in Avondale, fueling a neighborhood rebirth already underway.

Two apartment buildings will be torn down on the block of Maple just west of Reading Road as part of a $29.5 million, five-year federal Choice Neighborhoods grant. ...